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Rufo

Male#2918 most common in Croatiafewer than 10 people
Meaning:
Red-haired
Origin:
Latin

About the name Rufo

From the Latin rufus, red-haired. Rufus is greeted by Paul in the letter to the Romans.

Name day and nicknames

Name day:
December 18

Popularity with newborns

Rufo has not appeared on the annual list of the most popular newborn names. That list covers the 50 most common names for each sex, so the name was given to fewer children than the 50th name of the year — not to none.

People with this name in Croatia

Fewer than 10 people in Croatia are called Rufo. The census does not publish exact figures below 10, so the real number is somewhere between 0 and 9. That is #2918 among all the names in Imenko.

Characteristics

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Sources

Counts of people living in Croatia come from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics' 2021 census, which suppresses any figure below 10. Yearly birth figures come from its annual list of the most popular newborn names. Meaning, origin, name day and nicknames are curated by Imenko.